Via Daniel Pipes: When I lived in Cairo in the 1970s, I conducted a little experiment: What, using only Arabic-language sources, could I learn about Jews, Judaism, Jewish history, Jewish culture, and the like? The paucity of resources stunned me; basically, the best way to learn about these subjects was to read between the lines of antisemitic tracts. It is therefore with delight that I read...
Today in Jewish History – Nissan 25
Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1933, King Christian X of Denmark attended the 100th anniversary celebration of a synagogue in Copenhagen, to demonstrate his solidarity with the Jews. During the Holocaust, King Christian served as a rare example of refusal to cooperate in the murder of Jews. Almost all of the Jews of Denmark survived the war, while those in almost every other Nazi-occupied nation had...
First Time: UN Hears from Jewish Refugees of Arab Lands
UN Watch Testifies Before UN Human Rights Council on Forgotten Refugees The history of Palestinian refugees deserves international attention. So does the history of one million Jewish refugees from the Arab-Israel conflict. Yet the United Nations has devoted countless resolutions and debates to only one side of this story, completely ignoring the other. For the first time ever in the UN Human...
Legal Rights and Title of Sovereignty of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and Palestine Under International Law
This article has been proven to cause “brain freeze” because it is so comprehensive and in-depth and as you read it, your brain freezes and then you have lay down on the floor in a fetal position and go to sleep. The good news is when you wake up, everything returns back to normal and you can resume reading and absorb the facts and data in the normal fashion. Regardless of the cost...
Jewish Remains Dug Up in Belarus
Workers rebuilding a sports stadium on the site of an 18th century Jewish cemetery in Belarus say they have no choice but to consign the bones to city dumps. “It’s impossible to pack an entire cemetery into sacks,” said worker Mikhail Gubets, adding that he stopped counting the skulls when the number went over 100. But critics say it’s part of a pattern of callous...
Today In Jewish History
Sponsored by Aish: In 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed a decree expelling all Jews who refused to convert to Christianity. Tomas de Torquemada served as “Grand Inquisitor,” charged with uncovering those who continued to practice Judaism in secret (called Conversos or Marranos — “pigs”). In the ensuing Inquisition, an estimated 32,000 Jews were...
Come to Palestine
We are not ignorant about our Jewish history. The Arab Palestinians in 1948 are not the original citizens in the land, not by a long shot. In 1948 and in decades prior, just as Arabs were immigrating, so too were Jews. However, the Jews are indigenous to the land and were the first to build a true civilization in the region that could be measured by any historical or archaeological standard...
UN Rights Council Hears from Jewish Refugee
The plight of Jews who were evicted from their homes in Muslim majority nations have been ignored by the international community. From UN Rights Council Hears from Jewish Refugee: A UN body with a history of passing anti-Israel resolutions heard about a different side of the Arab-Israeli conflict last week when a Jewish refugee described her family’s eviction from the home they had occupied...
Join us here at Smooth Stone along with other people of good conscience and put an end to the brutal terror of the Palestinian Authority complicit in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Jews from their homeland of Israel.